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Georg Henrik von Wright (1916–2003)

Autor(a) de Vetenskapen och förnuftet

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About the Author

Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) von Wright used to tell British friends that the anglophone pronunciation was correct, since the name derived from a Scotsman (i.e., rhyming with "bright" not “tricked”). The Institute for the Languages of Finland, however, promotes the rendering of the Von Wright surname as "fånvrikt"

Séries

Obras de Georg Henrik von Wright

Vetenskapen och förnuftet (1986) 116 cópias
The varieties of goodness (1963) 45 cópias
Ajatus ja julistus (1974) 29 cópias
Wittgenstein (1982) 27 cópias
Philosophical Logic (1983) 15 cópias
Mitt liv som jag minns det (2001) 15 cópias
Logiikka ja humanismi (1998) 13 cópias
Filosofisia tutkielmia (1985) 8 cópias
Tieto ja ymmärrys (1999) 8 cópias
An Essay in Modal Logic (1951) 5 cópias
Sobre la libertad humana (2002) 2 cópias
Lógica deóntica (1901) 2 cópias
Normas, verdad y lógica (2013) 2 cópias
Freedom and determination (1980) 2 cópias
Framsteg, myt, rationalitet (1997) 2 cópias
Framfaragoðsögnin 1 exemplar(es)
Normen, Werte und Handlungen (1994) 1 exemplar(es)
What is Humanism? 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

On Certainty (1969) — Editor, algumas edições1,355 cópias
Culture and Value (1977) — Editor, algumas edições701 cópias
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1967) — Editor — 358 cópias
Zettel (1967) — Editor, algumas edições307 cópias
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1958) — Contribuinte, algumas edições271 cópias
Intention and Intentionality: Essays for G. E. M. Anscombe (1979) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
Wienin piiri (2002) 10 cópias
Ajatus ja analyysi (1977) 9 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Wright, Georg Henrik von
Nome de batismo
Wright, Georg Henrik von
Data de nascimento
1916-06-14
Data de falecimento
2003-06-16
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Finland
Local de nascimento
Helsinki, Finland
Local de falecimento
Helsinki, Finland
Locais de residência
Helsinki, Finland
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Educação
University of Helsinki (Ph.D.|1941)
University of Cambridge
Ocupação
philosopher
Relacionamentos
Kaila, Eino (teacher)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (teacher)
Hintikka, Jaakko (student)
Organizações
University of Helsinki (Professor of Philosophy)
University of Cambridge (Professor of Philosophy)
Aviso de desambiguação
von Wright used to tell British friends that the anglophone pronunciation was correct, since the name derived from a Scotsman (i.e., rhyming with "bright" not “tricked”). The Institute for the Languages of Finland, however, promotes the rendering of the Von Wright surname as "fånvrikt"

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was G. H. von Wright’s professor, mentor, and friend. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, Wright became literary executor and spent thirty years collecting, compiling, editing, and publishing the works. Wittgenstein wrote a lot, but published very little during his lifetime, so the task of the literary executor was long and painstaking. Upon publishing the complete works in various editions from 1951 to 1981, Wright wrote the present book as a tribute to his friend and mentor.

The present book, Wittgenstein, focuses on geistige Erscheinung, the overall personality and spiritual makeup of the man. Many people know Wittgenstein as the most influential and brilliant philosopher of logic, language, mathematics, and epistemology of the twentieth century. He invented the philosophical notions of language-games, picture theory and family resemblance. But he had an interesting variety of paths in life.

Wittgenstein, a native of Austria, was an engineer and held a patent for jet propeller design and created a sewing machine design and built it himself. He was also an architect. He played clarinet and considered becoming a conductor. He spoke fluent German, English, and Norwegian. He was an elementary school teacher in remote Austrian villages for several years, and a gardener at a monastery near Vienna. He also studied the psychology of music, rhythm, and aesthetics in the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory. He fought in WWI, was decorated and spent a year in an Italian prison camp. Between battles, and while in the prison camp, he wrote his famous first breakthrough work in the philosophy of language, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (luckily he had the manuscript in his bag when he was captured).

Wright spends a lot of time on Wittgenstein’s views of logic and language. He also delves into the character. Wittgenstein inherited a vast fortune from his father, but felt that wealth corrupted intellectual activity and integrity. So he gave all his money away. To avoid corrupting the virtuous poor, he gave it to his already-wealthy sister.

Ludwig Wittgenstein believed a correct understanding of language-games might even solve most of the day’s social problems. He lived through two world wars, and feared civilization would become a heap of rubble and ashes, with spirits hovering over it. He rigorously studied the Gospels and his spiritual life was influenced by Tolstoy.

Wittgenstein was never at peace with society. He found it “alien and uncongenial.” Before the war, Wittgenstein retreated from society and lived in a hut in Norway for about a year. He said he could not find a home for his work, nor a home for himself.

About ten years after WWI, he became a professor at Cambridge University in England on the strength of the Tractatus. He explained to a potential publisher when shopping the manuscript, that the work “consists of two parts: 1) the one presented here, plus 2) all that I have not written…this second part is the important one.” This publisher and many others declined the honor of publishing the book, which took many years to finally get in print.

Wittgenstein partly inspired the founding principles and creation of the famous Vienna Circle of logical positivists (via Moritz Schlick) in the 1920s and 1930s, then typical for him, declined to be part of it and largely disagreed with them. In many other cases, he expressed dislike for the views of people who claimed to be “followers of Wittgenstein.”

One follower, or at least student, was the author of the present book, G. H. von Wright, who remained lifelong friends with Wittgenstein, and proved to be most well equipped to articulate his mentor’s thinking.

Later, G. H. von Wright himself was mentor to the next generation’s most famous philosopher in language and logic, Professor Jaakko Hintikka (both natives of Finland). Hintikka is the founder of formal epistemic logic and game semantics for logic.

In turn, as a side note, Jaakko Hintikka became the major professor of a younger philosophy-of-language student from 1981 to 1985, Robert Rose-Coutré (me).

Wright’s expansive and generous tribute to Wittgenstein highlights the intensity of Wittgenstein’s sincere belief in his work. The typical intellectual’s “label of ‘Cool Objectivity’ did not fit Wittgenstein. He put his whole soul into everything he did.”

It is obvious that Wright himself put his whole soul into the work as literary executor. Wright spent thirty years searching Europe and the United States for manuscripts, notes, fragments, all scattered across universities, publishers, former students, and other archives. He pieced together timelines, versions, revisions, margin notes, with endless collations. The present book is called a Tribute to Ludwig Wittgenstein, and it is an admirable one. But the real tribute was Wright’s thirty years’ labor ensuring the great mind’s output could be shared with everyone.
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Coutre | Dec 23, 2020 |
An excellent account of scientific explanation in natural science. Also contains thoughts on understanding in the human sciences, especially history, but I didn't find that part equally interesting. In any case, von Wright's writing is always exemplary in terms of clarity and definitely worth reading.
 
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thcson | 1 outra resenha | Apr 23, 2010 |
Probably one of the deservedly bet known Finnish scientific works.
 
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jukke | Dec 25, 2006 |
Tämä kirja oli humanistien johdontakurssikirja yliopistolla ja syystä tai toisesta jää vaille klassikon statusta.
 
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jukke | Dec 25, 2006 |

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Membros
795
Popularidade
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Avaliação
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Resenhas
7
ISBNs
116
Idiomas
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